Fragments of Ash Vol. 2 (Urban Fantasy)

Chapter Four: The Goliath

The air at the festival slowly started to become heavy, filled with tension. It started to get dark, unnaturally so considering it was still the middle of the day. Dark clouds started to form in the sky, unsettling and foreboding. Ada and Ciel started to feel uneasy, slowly, the ground beneath their feet started to shake. The stalls rattled, food fells out of people's hands, some couldn't even maintain footing because of how much the ground was shaking. Lightning started to crash down from the skies. The once cold air started to heat up. Terror started to fill the hearts of the people at the food festival. People started to scream,

"Ada, what the hell's happening?" shouted Ciel,

"I've no idea!" Ada replied, but the lightning looked like a summoning spell was being cast. Black magic.

"We should run, I don't know but... I feel like we should run!" said Ciel,

"No, you can go," Ada put her hand into her dress, her sword was hidden inside.

One final flash of lightning, a goliath appeared as if from nowhere one the light dissipated. It stood in the middle of the main road and stood, a feral, vicious stance. Titanic in size, it was an outlander that looked like no other. Lurched over, drooling, rabid looking, this creature was large enough to tower over the rooftops of the nearby buildings. Its mouth was large enough to swallow people whole, and its sharp, vicious teeth did little to redeem whatever human-like features it may have had.

A giant, savage creature. Grey skinned, mutated, hungry for human blood.

It roared a loudly it made the ground shake and the air blur; the unnatural, mutated sound that was so characteristic of outlanders confirmed that it was one of them, and not some other type of mysterious creature.

Someone had summoned an outlander, and it was one like no other.

The beast instantly ran towards the largest gathering of people in the festival and started its murdering spree. Every step it took as it crashed its feet onto the street made the ground rumble, the constant growl and murderous look on its face terrified people to the point where many could barely even move.

Lurched over, it started to smash its fists onto the floor, crushing its victims into nothing but spattered puddles of red. It grabbed people and threw them against the steel and concrete with such force that they exploded on impact. Amongst the shower of blood and guts, the shattering of bone and sinew, and the united cry of all the people, Ada and Ciel couldn't help but stare in sheer disbelief.

The carnage was worse than anything either of them had seen before. Ada's surprise slowly started to turn into rage. Her emotions started to boil as she saw more and more people become stains on the grounds. As the creature chewed on the crushed bodies it had left on the floor, Ada began to lose control.

She tore open her dress and drew her sword. The creature was distracted. She had enough time to cast a strength, speed and endurance spell. A few other elemental buffs and the like. She'd be able to take the thing down with ease.

Quickly. Quickly. Cast already!

Finally, she was ready.

With her sword drawn, she dashed towards the creature, a surprise attack, the back of the neck; that should immobilise it. She jumped into the air, she sent a charge through her sword as she threw herself onto the creature's body. The sword dug into the outlander's neck.

The charge of the sword burned the skin of the creature, it howled in pain. But Ada must have missed the spine, it was still able to move. It twisted and turned, tried to grab Ada with one of its free hands.